Cloud Intelligence Conference: Kansas City 2012

Intelligence Conference - Testimonials

From past events in the series

• Well organized, well-structured and good content. One of the best seminars I've attended! Thank you!
• It is very difficult to host this type of event and to avoid self-promotion by the presenters...yet you succeeded. Congratulations! I would recommend this conference and I would attend in the future. Overall, I found it to be inspiring.
• This one needs to be every year.
• The event was very well organized and I learned a lot on subjects I attended. Thank You!
• The conference was great. The sponsors were wonderful!! Thank you!
• I really appreciated the emphasis on that IT is to support the business and how we can become a profit driver.
• Excellent view and stories. Very much into making IT less arm-waving and vague and complex. I agree with him and took a lot of notes. He was the top presenter for the whole conference. Awesome!. And not one PowerPoint!!!
• Bob was very interesting. Easy to listen to and understand. Brought a breath of fresh air not using ugly Power Points.
• Bob McDowell's speech was brief and humorous. Thanks!
• Excellent speaker, very interesting content and timely topics covered
• Excellent and informative to what I want to learn and provide for my clients.
• Excellent speaker. He was very inspirational.
• Bob's historical perspective and common sense approach is very refreshing.
• Great insights!
• Great presentation. Bob does not need PowerPoint slides to get the point across.
• Very valid points about how cloud computing can be the next important event, if deployed and used correctly to benefit the organization in a creative/innovative way.
• I particularly appreciated Bob McDowell's historical perspective and candid overview.
• I love Chris he is a great presenter and for many in the room he really covered an entry into the world of virtualization.
• Absolutely great speaker. Lots of "product neutral" concepts. Good advice and suggestion. And he was an extremely engaging speaker. Well done!!! My favorite after the keynote speaker!
• excellent presentation from obviously knowledgeable and experienced individual, describing very technical concepts in fairly non-technical terms. Very entertaining.
• Buck Woody is great!
• Buck was awesome. Best presenter I have seen in sometime.
• Always great to 'participate' in a Buck Woody session
• Buck Woody is a great presenter. He brought the necessary humor along with him.
• Very useful in breaking down how different forms of virtualization carry different levels of administrative control and sharing of risk.
• Great speaker. Very funny. Lots of insight.
• What an outstanding speaker. The dude should go national . . . very informative and engaging at the same time. Very well done.
• Exactly what I needed.
• Very good information, answered everyone's questions with knowledge and ease.
• This session was the most practical, and the most valuable I attended of the event. The presenter was articulate, engaging, and knowledgeable.
• Good content. Some understanding given of the differences with Exchange Online versus in-house.
• Very good information. Speaker could answer all questions.
• The speaker was very good and the content seemed very realistic (not salesy) and down to earth. Helpful!
• Buck was fabulous. Once again, great speaker and concepts. Humor and engaging. And requirements driven architecture is a key point. Lots of great examples and decision matrix will be very useful.
• Buck Woody was exceptional.
• Buck Woody is great!
• The session was great and brought all the necessary details as needed for a simple azure program. This session definitely provided context to azure programming model.
• Best presentation of the day. She exuded great confidence and had the most enthusiasm about the possibilities of the platform, also the best actual examples.
• Awesome.
• It was nice to hear and understand Microsoft's view of the cloud world.
• The best all day. Engaging and used a live demo to illustrate the slides so we could make the connection between concept and something concrete.
• Nice job. Very well informed, demonstration was spot on. Good, engaging speaker and she answered the questions that I had.
• Very interesting stuff
• Very dynamic, accomplished speaker. No head nodding-to-sleep in this session! Great slides, great talking points. Super demos!
• This was probably the most useful and extremely well presented session of all. Thanks Bruno.
• Again, lots of demos! The speaker had interesting points of view and made everything seem easy.
• You guys should do these types of things quarterly!!! These are the BEST value of any seminar I've ever been.
• This was one of the best conferences that I have attended in a couple of years. Thank you
• One of the best keynote speeches I've ever seen.
• It was nice to have real world experienced people speak about their installations and how they use it.
• Great Presentation
• I thought it was a great idea to have actual companies that implemented the technologies presented on the conference. It was interesting to listen to their experiences.
• I thought it was very good
• Harold was great!
• Great Presentation
• Great speaker. Very knowledgeable and passionate
• Very informative session for overview.
• Great keynote speaker.
• Great speaker. She was dynamic and not only knew her product, but was absolutely enthusiastic about it.
• Outstanding.
• Turned out to be exactly what I wanted
• very personable speaker - good job
• Outstanding keynote!
• Excellent speaker, interesting insight into Microsoft
• I found the second keynote speaker to be very personable and his stories very interesting. I would listen to him again.
• very interesting keynote
• A lot of anecdotes and understanding of what is important to make IT in business work and what red herrings to avoid.
• Speaker was awesome
• Very good speaker.
• It was interesting to listen about the IT industry from the point of view of an "executive" level person.
• Very entertaining.
• Great speaker.
• Great...
• The 2nd Keynote was a great speech delivered by a great speaker
• I liked the demonstrations
• Very useful nuts and bolts setup info. Good feel about what is needed and time required to implement.
• This session could be a good model for other speakers to use when covering subjects.
• Great slides / speaker.
• Excellent speaker and the majority of the content was actual usage in a real environment, which was very valuable and helpful.
• Jennelle is brilliant!!!
• The presenter was great! He didn't have a lot to present but the hands-on demos and tips made this session worth it!
• Speaker was very good.....
• Very good session; to the point.
• Speaker was very energetic and engaged the audience very well.
• Great speaker. Harold is very knowledgeable and well organized with his demos. He answered everyone's questions and provided great advices.
• Useful info, and easy to see what it takes to implement some features. Explained well.
• Great for medium to large scales org.
• Made my day. Truly outstanding.
• This speaker was good. Had good info and the content was extremely valuable. We are in the middle of a refresh - preparing for software upgrades.
• Gerald was very good presenting his materials. I would like to have access to the slides.
• Steve is a good speaker; he was entertaining and kept the presentation going quickly.
• Speaker provided clear, useful information to bring back from both a developer (much easier than before!) and project perspective. I've recommended we do any custom development needed on SP 2010 because of his presentation.
• Loved the learning moments from the City of Poway.
• Great job!
• Great material and basic information about Powershell, good price attraction.
• Doug was an excellent speaker.
• Great speaker.
• Lots of useful information based on an actual demo.
• Awesome.
• This was the best speaker of the day. In fact, due to him - I left the conference realizing we need to plan a lot better than we have for 2010.
• Speaker stayed high level and didn't get into a sales pitch. I appreciate that!
• Again, it was excellent. I did not feel the need to move to another topic.
• Joe did a good job of letting us know what we needed before we get started with installations. Governance should be #1 for everyone
• One of the best sessions I attended. Very informative. Was very helpful to what we are currently working toward with SharePoint.
• Excellent content. Good delivery. Could have used more Q&A time but Lynn did stay for a few minutes afterwards.
• Lots of great information
• Great session. Very knowledgeable.
• Good knowledge, and delivery of information. It was at the level where a new user who never used could follow and also got into advanced features.
• He was an excellent facilitator. He involved the participants and was not boring. I highly recommend he come back.
• Speaker was lively (good for after lunch) and good relevant info.
• Lots of useful information based on an actual demo.
• Overall, I did enjoy the event. I would definitely go again.
• It was a great event.
• Felt taken care of
• Overall, well done. Can't wait for the next event.
• Thank you, it was great.
• The event was worthwhile.
• Overall, well done. Vendors were placed well and there was enough room to get the feeling it was busy but not packed. Lots of great networking opportunities.
• Overall, the venue was great, the people were nice.
• The venue for the conference was EXCELLENT!! The staff was always friendly. The convenience of staying at the hotel and just walking to the conference was great! I highly recommend this venue!
• I was able to choose enough sessions to get good value out of the conference. I also enjoyed hearing about Microsoft's direction in the Keynote.
• Listening to people with true knowledge of successes and failures of SP ECM, RM and deployment strategies
• The speaker from Skecher's did a fantastic job/presentation...Karuana, I believe was her name.
• I think the presenters were well chosen. Some of the topics were going on at the same time that could have been scheduled differently so I don't miss my favorite on. For example, REST was at the same time as AJAX. I wished I could have attended REST instead of Silverlight.
• The audience was very good. Great interaction and break out sessions educational. Great event!
• Sessions were informative
• The Security session I attended was the most helpful for me. I wish the other presenters were as prepared as Harold was. It really felt like a quick lecture meant to point out what you need to know and he delivered. I also liked that this event allowed my team to share something work related together while in a fun atmosphere. That was very nice as well.
• The overall event was very good. ECM session was the highlight, but everything really was done great.
• Well organized and informative.
• In general, I learned about SharePoint 2010 new features from this conference. The keynote was impressive.
• Great educational sessions this year. Last year felt like a lot of marketing so this year was a great improvement.
• Nice location and organization of the event.
• A good variety of sessions, not overkill from vendors selling their product, interaction with other SharePoint users.
• I could tell the presenters were knowledgeable.
• Great turnout.
• I think it was a great way to meet people, go over new information and learn about topics.
• I liked the diversity of topics of the break out session from which I could choose from.
• Spending some time with a former co-worker who was also at the event, the keynote, and the Project Management session.
• Meeting different groups. Rubbing shoulders with other SharePoint people
• The sessions and the network connectives I had the opportunity to create during the event.
• Sessions were very informative and Margo Day was inspiring!!
• I like the reception.
• the choice of classes was very good... nice broad selection
• Very organized. Not crowded.
• I like the keynote speaker, she was very informative and kept you engaged.
• Variety of topics for different audiences. Sessions were long enough to learn something, but not too in depth--not enough time to do that anyway, so it was good to get an overview and know what you would like to spend more time researching later.
• Well organized and plenty of QuickStart people around
• Great Conference. Stress free check-in, good breakout session, good atmosphere. Keep up the good work.
• Strong technical presenters are a rare breed--recruit, keep, and leverage them for every event! The presentations I attended were a lot less vendor-focused, which helped me clearly see what SP 2010 had to offer as a platform.
• The event covered many different SharePoint topics; there was something for everyone.